Personal profile
Research interests
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Data clustering
- Bio-inspired Machine Learning, including immune-inspired neural architecture search
- Explainable and accountable AI
- graph neural networks as applied in molecular property prediction
- Deep learning as applied in health, medical domains, and biology.
- Bio-inspired Computation
- Swarm Intelligence
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Physarum-inspired Computing
- Evolutionary Computation
- Qualitative Reasoning
- Learning Qualitative Differential Equations
- Qualitative and Semi-quantitative Simulation
Biography
Please see my personal webpage and lab page for more information: https://pangweijlu.github.io/
I am leading the BCML Lab @Heriot-Watt: https://bioml.eu.org/
I am also a member of Edinburgh Centre for Robotics: https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/academics/wei-pang
Press Profile
- My work in collaboration with Bristol was featured in Nature as a technology features article on 18 February 2025. We explored how we could use machine learning and whole-cell modelling to facilitate the design of E. coli genomes. Nature Article Our Work
- The team of MSc students that I supervised won Data Lab's Innovation Challenge in 2020, featured in The National, digit.fyi, and Circular Glasgow.
- Featured on the Cover Page of Royal Society of Edinburgh ResourceE: https://www.rse.org.uk/publication/resource-autumn-2015/
- The EPSRC project “Manufacturing Immortality” was mentioned by BBC Radio 4 Today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kq1gr
- Mentioned by the CRUK Oxford Centre for the Endo.AI project: https://www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/early-detection-sandpit-artificial-intelligence-in-medical-image-analysis
- Mentioned by Oxford Centre for Early Cancer Detection for the Hame-AI project: https://www.oxcode.ox.ac.uk/news/early-detection-artificial-intelligence-and-digital-pathology-sandpit
- Scottish Crucible Reflections: https://scottishcrucible.org.uk/dr-wei-pang-scottish-crucible-2015/
- Speak for the MSc AI program and Data Lab scholarships when I was Director of MSc AI and Data Lab Coordinator at Aberdeen: 2019: https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/05/02/msc-artificial-intelligence-ai-scholarships-at-aberdeen-university/ 2018: https://www.energyvoice.com/other-news/175874/aberdeen-university-secures-75600-worth-of-ai-scholarships/
- Data Lab Award at Aberdeen: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/news/12039/ https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/news/12967/
- DeepSwarm: 1)Best Paper Award: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/news/13396/ 2)Towards Data Science Tutorial: https://towardsdatascience.com/ants-can-tell-you-how-to-wire-your-neurons-7cb9462b83bb
Key Research Words/Phrases
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Modelling and Simulation, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Immune Systems, Swarm Intelligence, Explainable AI, Accountable AI
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A Dual-Branch Super-Deep MambaPlusResGCN for Node Classification: Achieving Robustness Against Over-Smoothing
Zheng, A., Pang, W. & Wang, C., 2 Jan 2026, Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems. UKCI 2025. Springer, p. 425-437 13 p. (Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems; vol. 1468).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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A generalized neural solver based on LLM-guided heuristic evoluation framework for solving diverse variants of vehicle routing problems
Chi, M., Pang, W., Wu, X., Zhao, P., Li, Y., Wang, T., Qian, J., Xiao, Y., Wang, L. & Zhou, Y., 15 Jan 2026, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 296, Part A, 128876.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Artificial Immune System Approaches to Classify Ambiguous Data on Device Quality
Patel, R., Zhang, Y., Nicol, R. L., Chen, D. & Pang, W., 2 Jan 2026, Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems. UKCI 2025. Springer, p. 91-102 12 p. (Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems; vol. 1468).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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InEx: Hallucination Mitigation via Introspection and Cross-Modal Multi-Agent Collaboration
Yang, Z., Yuan, Y., Jiang, X., An, B. & Pang, W., 14 Mar 2026, Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press, p. 29829-29837 9 p. (AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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IO-K-Means: Iterative Optimization for Centroids in K-Means
Zhang, S., Yang, M., Zhang, T., Wang, J., Zhao, Y., Pang, W. & Wang, Y., 2026, Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2025. Yoshikawa, M., Meng, X., Cao, Y., Xiao, C., Chen, W. & Wang, Y. (eds.). Springer, p. 203-212 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 16200).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Datasets
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Public Attention Text Dataset on Circular Economy for Topic Modelling
Song, J. (Creator), Yuan, Y. (Creator), Chang, K. (Creator), Xu, B. (Creator), Xuan, J. (Creator) & Pang, W. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 25 Jun 2025
DOI: 10.17861/85bf3f9d-dc42-4b5c-8e29-47ddd0f0f687
Dataset
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PRIME Survey Dataset of Minoritised Ethnic People’s Engagement with Online Services
Netto, G. (Creator), Baillie, L. (Creator), Pang, W. (Creator), Shahandashti, S. (Creator), Rizvi, M. (Creator), Yuan, Y. (Creator), Lewinska, P. (Creator), Dodd, C. (Creator), Islam, F. (Creator), Hasan, S. (Creator), Whyte, L. J. (Creator) & Song, J. (Data Manager), Heriot-Watt University, 7 Apr 2025
DOI: 10.17861/db813826-e45d-4274-b4c3-7ecdbf2336a5
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Prizes
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2015 Scottish Crucible project awarded by President of Royal Society of Edinburgh
Pang, W. (Recipient), 2015
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Best Paper Presentation Award, ICOSP 2025
Pang, W. (Recipient), Yuan, Y. (Recipient), Kefan, C. (Recipient) & Rizvi, M. (Recipient), Dec 2024
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Best Presentation Award in The 10th International Conference on Signal Processing
Pang, W. (Recipient), 21 Dec 2024
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Excellent Oral Presentation Award at the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Algorithms
Pang, W. (Recipient), Yuan, Y. (Recipient), Rizvi, M. (Recipient), Baillie, L. (Recipient), Kefan, C. (Recipient) & Edmondson, A. (Recipient), 2025
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